Watch the Throne Tour

The Watch the Throne Tour had three shows at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. I attended the middle show on Monday December 12th show. When I heard that Jay-Z and Kanye West where collabrating on a album of the same title as the tour I was hoping they would tour in support of that album. I had seen Jay-Z at Coachella in 2010 and Kanye the following year at Coachella 2011. They are in the top 10 of my favorite rappers of all time, so I was very excited to see this show. They performed all the tracks on the Watch the Throne album, but Jay-Z and Kanye did material from their personal albums mixed into the show. There was a main stage and a second stage that was smaller. Both stages had a platform that raised about 20 feet in the air, and the platforms had LED screens attached to them to project videos of animals. The show started around 9:30pm and did not stop until after midnight. The only thing that I did not like was that Jay-Z and Kanye perfrormed the same song 9 times. There was a running record on the tour that the first city they performed the song one time, the second city two times, so when they came to Los Angeles the record was 8 times. They broke that record by performing it 9 times. I am sure it is some kind of political statement or a statement on our current society and/or culture. The was one of the best Hip Hop shows I have ever attended, below are pictures from the show.

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